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Over 1,000 students and members of the Harvard community congregated in Sanders Theatre on Friday for the Harvard for Haiti Benefit Concert, which raised roughly $37,000 for relief efforts and advocated for long-term assistance to the earthquake-devastated Caribbean nation...
...delivered 5,000 boxes to Haiti, and we are packing 5,000 more. All told, at least 100,000 people will benefit. The first tents that arrived in Port-au-Prince were used to house patients at a field hospital...
Still, President Obama has admitted that the domestic political calculus on both sides of the divide has blocked progress toward realizing a two-state solution. But if his efforts are to bear any fruit, Obama and his international partners will have to change the cost-benefit analysis for the Israelis and Palestinians by raising both the inducements to act and the consequences of inaction. As long as the status quo remains more politically comfortable than the alternative, there's no reason to expect any progress...
...level officer corps, and an important support base of the Netanyahu government. Israel's Foreign Minister, Avigdor Lieberman, is himself a settler. The religious-nationalist ideological core of the settler movement has threatened to violently resist any attempt to move them, and for many Israelis, the cost-benefit analysis weighs against uprooting them: Why risk a domestic civil war in order to return land to the Palestinians, who might later turn it into a base to fire rockets at you? Perhaps in another generation...
Political leaders typically change course not because they change their philosophy, but because the cost-benefit ratio in maintaining the status quo no longer makes sense. That was true for Rabin - who embraced the Oslo process after calculating that Israel could not forever count on unconditional U.S. support - and also for Yasser Arafat and Mahmoud Abbas. Rabin's cost-benefit analysis told him that Israel's best interests required moving toward a two-state solution from a position of strength, and the Palestinian leadership recognized that, as much as they desired a return to the homes and land they lost...